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WASHINGTON( Reuters)-U.S. President Joe Biden will meet virtually on Friday with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida discuss the two nations' economies, security matters, climate change and other bilateral issues, the White House announced on Sunday." The meeting will highlight the strength of the U.S.-Japan alliance, which is the cornerstone of peace, security, and stability in the Indo-Pacific and around the world," the White House said in a statement.( Reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by

WARSAW( Reuters)-U.S. President Joe Biden was not calling for regime change in Russia when he said on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin" cannot remain in power," a White House official said.... " The President's point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region.... He was not discussing Putin's power in Russia, or regime change," the official said following Biden's speech in Warsaw.( Reporting by Jarrett Renshaw in Warsaw; Writing by Jason L

HAVANA( Reuters)-Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez threatened legal action against Facebook on Wednesday, alleging the social media platform had aided the dissident movement in the communist-run country by changing algorithms and the geo-locations of posts ahead of planned protests on Nov.... Cuban authorities denied that request last month, alleging protesters were seeking the violent overthrow of the government.... Protesters say they plan to go ahead with the march anyway.( Reporting b

TOKYO( Reuters)-Japan on Saturday became the world's fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon, as the space agency said its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon( SLIM) has made a soft landing on the lunar surface. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has attempted the landing of the probe dubbed" moon sniper" within 100 metres( 328 feet) of target.... It will take up to a month to verify if SLIM has achieved the precision goals, the agency has said.( Reporting by Kantaro Komiya; Editing b

WASHINGTON( Reuters)-U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday said the United States will continue to keep pressure on North Korea until it changes course, after Washington this month warned that Pyongyang is preparing to conduct a seventh nuclear test." Our goal, simply put, is a peaceful and stable region and world.... Until the regime in Pyongyang changes course, we will continue to keep the pressure on," Blinken told reporters following a meeting with South Korean Foreign Minister P

WASHINGTON( Reuters)-The United States is looking at a range of contingency options to help Ukraine should Russia cut off energy supplies, a senior Biden administration official said on Wednesday. The official, who spoke to a small group of reporters on condition of anonymity, said the United States is confident that European allies will agree to impose severe economic penalties on Russia if Moscow invades Ukraine.... As European officials have become increasingly aware of the severity of the t

LONDON( Reuters)-A Russian general was killed in eastern Ukraine, a Russian state media journalist said on Sunday, adding to the string of high-ranking military casualties sustained by Moscow. The report, published on the Telegram messaging app by state television reporter Alexander Sladkov, did not say precisely when and where Major General Roman Kutuzov was killed.... There was no immediate comment from the Russian defence ministry.... 24. Russia says it is carrying out" special military ope

MEXICO CITY( Reuters)-Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Saturday that Mexico does not accept the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a video message released to coincide with a global event in support of Ukrainian victims of the conflict." We do not accept Russia's invasion of Ukraine, because we have suffered from invasions," said Lopez Obrador, referencing the Spanish, French, and American invasions of the Latin American nation." We are in favor of a peaceful solution to the con